Sam RJ Coley
@rockjonny.bsky.social
CEO of swatch internet time | writer | state highway one - hachette aotearoa/australia | sophomore novel - in progress | no longer on substack
toitū te tiriti | always was, always will be
toitū te tiriti | always was, always will be
the qantas lounge should have little rooms where you can scooch off and have sex like they do at Berghain
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
the qantas lounge should have little rooms where you can scooch off and have sex like they do at Berghain
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cowards make good weather vanes
Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
cowards make good weather vanes
I sold 7 while-u-wait poems at a garage sale on Saturday (wrote them on my typewriter) for $5 each which is actually more money than I make from selling a copy of my novel so idk who said there's no money in poetry but I'm thinking of changing careers
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I sold 7 while-u-wait poems at a garage sale on Saturday (wrote them on my typewriter) for $5 each which is actually more money than I make from selling a copy of my novel so idk who said there's no money in poetry but I'm thinking of changing careers
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It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.
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Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty.
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#kikorangi
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#kikorangi
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty.
🧵
#kikorangi
🧵
#kikorangi
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all of these technologies are being adopted to displace liability onto something that can't be punished
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
all of these technologies are being adopted to displace liability onto something that can't be punished
Love thar Scruff has a thirst pics feature built in now. problem is there's a 100% chance I'm gonna accidentally post hole to instagram by accident one day
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Love thar Scruff has a thirst pics feature built in now. problem is there's a 100% chance I'm gonna accidentally post hole to instagram by accident one day
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Please stop calling my mashed potatoes "hetslop." I was cooking all day while you were at work
October 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Please stop calling my mashed potatoes "hetslop." I was cooking all day while you were at work
Kids these days will never know the simple terrors in life like when you measure your house and it's bigger on the inside.
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Kids these days will never know the simple terrors in life like when you measure your house and it's bigger on the inside.
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!
September 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP in February. The final recommendations of the report, which was never released publicly, did not include closing Meanjin.
Who killed Meanjin?
www.crikey.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP in February. The final recommendations of the report, which was never released publicly, did not include closing Meanjin.
still can't get over the stupidness of the jokes in the new Naked Gun movie. 100 dumb jokes per minute, I haven't laughed like that in a cinema in such a long time
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
still can't get over the stupidness of the jokes in the new Naked Gun movie. 100 dumb jokes per minute, I haven't laughed like that in a cinema in such a long time
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Noooooooooo don’t point out what he was saying and in which context that’s not fair 🥺
September 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Noooooooooo don’t point out what he was saying and in which context that’s not fair 🥺
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please i am begging whoever has my voodoo doll stop making it read the news
September 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
please i am begging whoever has my voodoo doll stop making it read the news
This is so fucking bleak man
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is so fucking bleak man
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“Actually we should empathise with Frankenstein, he’s really the victim here…” No. Look at him. He’s green and he’s got bolts in his neck. He should be killed with flaming torches
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Actually we should empathise with Frankenstein, he’s really the victim here…” No. Look at him. He’s green and he’s got bolts in his neck. He should be killed with flaming torches
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QLD politicians defamed me in parliament & media, stripped me of $15,000 First Nations award, and labelled me a threat to social cohesion because of sympathetic posts towards Palestinians. And yet this gov defends the rights of racists & actual nazis to stage anti-immigration pro-white hate rallies
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
QLD politicians defamed me in parliament & media, stripped me of $15,000 First Nations award, and labelled me a threat to social cohesion because of sympathetic posts towards Palestinians. And yet this gov defends the rights of racists & actual nazis to stage anti-immigration pro-white hate rallies
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I'll be appearing at four events at Brisbane Writers Festival in October @briswritersfest.bsky.social One schools event and three others, in very good company. I hope to see you there! Book tickets at brisbanepowerhouse.org?festivals=br...
August 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I'll be appearing at four events at Brisbane Writers Festival in October @briswritersfest.bsky.social One schools event and three others, in very good company. I hope to see you there! Book tickets at brisbanepowerhouse.org?festivals=br...
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love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"
August 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"
I am old enough to have lived through so many iterations of this exact thing on the internet. They will make it impossible to leave or exist outside their platform, and when they inevitably implode, leave writers, creatives and communities in the dust with nothing and no alternative.
i guess in short, something that seems like a good thing ("yay, it's easier to subscribe!") ends up also being a way that substack writers will find it less and less "practical" to leave. i talked a lot about lock-in my leaving note, and this is just a thing to be added to that list. an FYI.
i am really glad i migrated webworm (www.webworm.co) off of substack last week. just now, substack has decided to make it impossible to take certain subscribers with you if you change platforms. remember how i talked about lock-in? it's just going to get worse.
August 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I am old enough to have lived through so many iterations of this exact thing on the internet. They will make it impossible to leave or exist outside their platform, and when they inevitably implode, leave writers, creatives and communities in the dust with nothing and no alternative.
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Finally logging in after months for some shameless self-promotion: something about numbers and value, stories and endings, and a lament about an industry not fit for purpose www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...
The Angel in the House
An experienced senior editor explores the dire state of the publishing industry.
www.killyourdarlings.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Finally logging in after months for some shameless self-promotion: something about numbers and value, stories and endings, and a lament about an industry not fit for purpose www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...
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lol
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
August 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
lol
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄